I'd like to see a mellow Candidate in office. -=The Rimstalker=-
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Remember when you were writing about your car crash and your expirience in 8th grade, and this little voice said, "I don't really belive this, but it's funny to write it anyway."? That was your sense of sarcasm, which must have been on a coffee break when you read the suck article. You talk about them being "obvious" for attacking demographics that might visit suck, but only when your demographic it in the line of fire. Please. Spare us all your ego and stop taking yourself so seriously. They make an important point, that if we want something done about the legal problems on the Internet, we should get off out metaphorical ass and do something. None of your egotistical posturing can take away from that. Your post should have been rated a "Flamebait," and consider the bait taken. -=The Rimstalker=-
But, of course, gas and oil company lobyists will have something to say about that, as will and manufacturing lobyists, because the research into nanotechnology would render normal methods of industry obsolete and make everything now produced in big factories cost 10% of what it does now. Senators will be bought in great enough numbers to ensure research grants dont go anywhere near hydrogen power and nanotechnology. God, we live in a great country.
>Safety issues? In the event of an accident is being flash-frozen better than being burned to death or dissolved by battery acid?
You couldn't possibly be flash frozen by liquid nitrogen if a tank ruptured in an accident. Liquid N2 is kept under pressure to be kept liquidous. If a tank ruptures, the Luiquid N2 will spill out and vaporize immeadiately. it's very unlikely, but still possible, that a small portion of your skin might get frostbite if exposed to the liquid N2 just after the tank ruptures, though, but not a big deal, really.
>What is the environmental impact of letting tons of nitrogen a day escape into the atmosphere?
Where do you think they get the Liquid N2 from? The air is composed of about 70%(I think, dont quote me on that) nitrogen, and liquid N2 is made by compressing air and seperating the liquid O2 from the liquid N2. The Nitrogen just returns to where it came from.
or having my sole stolen by Microsoft. Writing shoddy software, anti-competitive practices, maybe even racketeering are fair enough claims but the slurs that Microsoft employees break into people's homes and steal their fish have never been substantiated.
>>To all of the people who think the FBI is so wrong in this(including the above poster): Who the hell do you think you are?
A citizen of the US-of-A. It's bad enough that I'm going to be of leagal voting age in tenmonths and either Bush or Gore is going to be in power (Support the one-and-a-half party system!), I don't need the FBI looking through all my e-mails. All I need is for this Carnavore BS and the Anti-Metaanphetamine rider to get passed and we've lost everything our forefathers... (::Somewhere, the Star-Spangled Banner is hummed::)...ok, enough of that gooey crap. You get my point. If we lose on this battle, what's next? I, fore one, don't want CBS's freindly facism, aka the show Big Brother (Somewhere, George Orwell rolls in his grave), to become a reallity for everyone. -=The Rimstalker=-
>If it does, I would put my money on a planetful of life specially evolved for that planet's conditions over a couple dozen carpet-bagging bacteria from a warm and comfy inner-system world like Earth.
...life evolving especially for one planet would nessisarily be similar enough to the carpet-bagging bacteria to be at any risk. -=The Rimstalker=-
...of course, pathogens designed to attack life on Europa would, in all likelyhood, have no effect on Earth life, as the protien structure would probably be drasticly different. I seriously doubt that all life in the Universe uses DNA as it's genetic base.
And, to whomever pointed out that thing about Mitocondria, bravo. =) -=The Rimstalker=-
Interesting... but I really don't think so. Jupiter is just entirely too big to be turned into a star by ~50 pounds of plutonium (or about0.000000000000000000000000000000001% of it's mass). Even if some nuclear explosion did occur, Jupiter just doesn't have enough hydrogen in it to sustain long-termed reactions, and all those fission-dead elements and compounds like helium and methane would slow it down too much. Of course, I'm no expert. -=The Rimstalker=-
I'm not sire I understood this article fully.... they suggest crashing the satellite to prevent contamination caused by crashing it? But I digress... 1) Wouldn't humans cause more of a contamination risk? I assume this means "...towards any life potentially on Europa." This could only be true if the life developing on Europa is based on the same protein structure as our planet. We don't even know if there is life on Europa yet, much less if it's carbon-based and has DNA as a carrier of genetic information. Only if those two conditions were true could I belive that any "space diseases" could infect Earth, or vice versa. 2) Wouldn't you like to have "Planetary Protection Officer" on your resume? Yes. Yes I would. =) -=The Rimstalker=-
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I'd like to see a mellow Candidate in office.
-=The Rimstalker=-
Remember when you were writing about your car crash and your expirience in 8th grade, and this little voice said, "I don't really belive this, but it's funny to write it anyway."? That was your sense of sarcasm, which must have been on a coffee break when you read the suck article. You talk about them being "obvious" for attacking demographics that might visit suck, but only when your demographic it in the line of fire. Please. Spare us all your ego and stop taking yourself so seriously. They make an important point, that if we want something done about the legal problems on the Internet, we should get off out metaphorical ass and do something. None of your egotistical posturing can take away from that. Your post should have been rated a "Flamebait," and consider the bait taken.
-=The Rimstalker=-
I... I thought I was the only one... so this is what it's like when doves cry...
-=The Rimstalker=-
But, of course, gas and oil company lobyists will have something to say about that, as will and manufacturing lobyists, because the research into nanotechnology would render normal methods of industry obsolete and make everything now produced in big factories cost 10% of what it does now. Senators will be bought in great enough numbers to ensure research grants dont go anywhere near hydrogen power and nanotechnology. God, we live in a great country.
-=The Rimstalker=-
>Safety issues? In the event of an accident is being flash-frozen better than being burned to death or dissolved by battery acid?
You couldn't possibly be flash frozen by liquid nitrogen if a tank ruptured in an accident. Liquid N2 is kept under pressure to be kept liquidous. If a tank ruptures, the Luiquid N2 will spill out and vaporize immeadiately. it's very unlikely, but still possible, that a small portion of your skin might get frostbite if exposed to the liquid N2 just after the tank ruptures, though, but not a big deal, really.
>What is the environmental impact of letting tons of nitrogen a day escape into the atmosphere?
Where do you think they get the Liquid N2 from? The air is composed of about 70%(I think, dont quote me on that) nitrogen, and liquid N2 is made by compressing air and seperating the liquid O2 from the liquid N2. The Nitrogen just returns to where it came from.
-=The Rimstalker=-
or having my sole stolen by Microsoft.
Writing shoddy software, anti-competitive practices, maybe even racketeering are fair enough claims but the slurs that Microsoft employees break into people's homes and steal their fish have never been substantiated.
LOL
-=The Rimstalker=-
>>To all of the people who think the FBI is so wrong in this(including the above poster): Who the hell do you think you are?
...ok, enough of that gooey crap. You get my point. If we lose on this battle, what's next? I, fore one, don't want CBS's freindly facism, aka the show Big Brother (Somewhere, George Orwell rolls in his grave), to become a reallity for everyone.
A citizen of the US-of-A. It's bad enough that I'm going to be of leagal voting age in tenmonths and either Bush or Gore is going to be in power (Support the one-and-a-half party system!), I don't need the FBI looking through all my e-mails. All I need is for this Carnavore BS and the Anti-Metaanphetamine rider to get passed and we've lost everything our forefathers... (::Somewhere, the Star-Spangled Banner is hummed::)
-=The Rimstalker=-
>If it does, I would put my money on a planetful of life specially evolved for that planet's conditions over a couple dozen carpet-bagging bacteria from a warm and comfy inner-system world like Earth.
...life evolving especially for one planet would nessisarily be similar enough to the carpet-bagging bacteria to be at any risk.
-=The Rimstalker=-
...of course, pathogens designed to attack life on Europa would, in all likelyhood, have no effect on Earth life, as the protien structure would probably be drasticly different. I seriously doubt that all life in the Universe uses DNA as it's genetic base.
And, to whomever pointed out that thing about Mitocondria, bravo. =)
-=The Rimstalker=-
Interesting... but I really don't think so. Jupiter is just entirely too big to be turned into a star by ~50 pounds of plutonium (or about0.000000000000000000000000000000001% of it's mass). Even if some nuclear explosion did occur, Jupiter just doesn't have enough hydrogen in it to sustain long-termed reactions, and all those fission-dead elements and compounds like helium and methane would slow it down too much. Of course, I'm no expert.
-=The Rimstalker=-
I'm not sire I understood this article fully....
they suggest crashing the satellite to prevent contamination caused by crashing it? But I digress...
1) Wouldn't humans cause more of a contamination risk?
I assume this means "...towards any life potentially on Europa." This could only be true if the life developing on Europa is based on the same protein structure as our planet. We don't even know if there is life on Europa yet, much less if it's carbon-based and has DNA as a carrier of genetic information. Only if those two conditions were true could I belive that any "space diseases" could infect Earth, or vice versa.
2) Wouldn't you like to have "Planetary Protection Officer" on your resume?
Yes. Yes I would. =)
-=The Rimstalker=-